AddressAbout the Role
This role is part of our national Accounts Services function, within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring (‘CF&R’) segment of FTI Consulting.
The Accounts Services team provides a high level of bookkeeping and banking support to CF&R's client-facing professional staff in respect of the various formal insolvency engagements they manage and is integral to CF&R successfully administering these. A number of the companies over which CF&R is appointed are distressed businesses, many of which continue to trade the control of CF&R's appointees.
Based in Melbourne or Perth, the Bookkeeper (the internal title will be an Accounts Services Assistant) is a permanent, full-time national role, supporting professional staff in the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth CF&R practices.
Duties include bookkeeping using the Insol6 Insolvency Management software platform (formerly ‘MYOB Insol’) (‘Insol6’), general Insol6 data processing and management/support, banking assistance using various on-line banking platforms, preparation of draft statutory documents/returns and various other accounts service-related responsibilities such as those set out below. Training on the Insol6 software and insolvency bookkeeping generally will be provided.
What You’ll Do
Working within a well-established and progressive team, you will:
- Provide banking/funds handling support to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth CF&R staff with respect to their client needs, including monitoring and handling client funds (banking, opening and closing bank accounts and other liaison with banks as required, Insol6/bank reporting)
- Insol6 data entry and database management, including creating new client records in Insol6, processing receipts and payments, journal entries, wages, dividend distributions, entering/updating employee/creditor information and updating client Charts of Account
- Assist with managing/monitoring client ATO registration and reporting obligations (GST/PAYG/STP), draft/lodge BAS, attend to GST payables, monitor GST receivables, liaise with ATO as required)
- Monitor staff compliance with statutory deadlines, prepare/manage periodical control reports/registers
- Assist with, and arrange timely closure of finalised client matters, including bank account closures and closing/archiving client Insol6 cases
- Various ad hoc duties and project work relating to the Accounts Services function as required
How You’ll Grow
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with proven, hands-on bookkeeping experience to work in a dynamic, supportive work environment. We will provide you with the necessary training.
In this role, you will also have the opportunity to partner with senior personnel to implement and drive a wide variety of performance improvement initiatives and greater operational efficiencies.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 2 years’ bookkeeping experience, with payroll experience highly regarded but not essential
- Bookkeeping qualifications highly regarded
- Experience using Insol6 / MYOB Insol Insolvency Management Software and/or Core IPS software , highly regarded but not essential
- High attention to detail, accuracy and problem-solving abilities
- Intermediate Excel and Word skills
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Our Benefits
Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks and benefits. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
- Attractive remuneration, including discretionary bonuses available to all employees
- 18 weeks paid, gender-neutral parental leave with full superannuation contributions throughout paid and unpaid leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Financial support to obtain work-related professional qualification, such as CA, CPA, or CFA, and other
- Professional membership contributions and generous paid study leave (up to 12 days)
- Corporate discount available for health insurance, including dependent(s)
- Employee Assistance Program (“EAP”) – free to all employees and their immediate families
- 35 hours per year for approved pro bono matters
- Special leave - 2 days per year of a cultural or religious holiday that is not treated as a public holiday in Australia
- FTI Work Perks: our discount program that provides a wide range of corporate offers, savings, and wellbeing resources
- Monthly Health & Wellbeing program including fitness subsidies
- Annual paid volunteer hours
- Corporate matching for charitable donations
- Opportunity to join our Reconciliation Action Plan - working group; FTI’s Women’s Initiative Network (FTI WIN); Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging and Corporate Citizenship committees
About FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping clients with their most significant opportunities and challenges. With more than 8,000+ employees located in 31 countries, our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. At FTI Consulting, we embrace, cultivate and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion & belonging, which are fundamental components to our core values.
FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been named the #1 Professional Services Firm on Forbes List of America's Best Employers and the best firm to work by Consulting Magazine. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Twitter (@FTIConsulting), Facebook and LinkedIn.
FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
